Opinion

Right now, all around the country, millions of students are returning to institutions of higher education for the fall semester, while others will be attending for the first time. In recent months, several universities have seen setbacks for freedom of speech and debate, with speakers being disinvited by administrators fearful of controversy, and others being…

Pictures of destroyed homes and flooded neighborhoods are heartbreaking, but the inspiring images of neighbors helping neighbors and average citizens performing heroic acts has shown Texas, and America, at its best. The eyes of the country have been on Texas as it deals with the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey. Along with coverage of the…

All my life, I have known this rule about people: Those who don’t fight the greatest evils will fight lesser evils or make-believe evils. This happens to be the morally defining characteristic of the left. During the Cold War, many liberals and nearly all conservatives fought communism, but the left fought anti-communism. The left opposed…

The Republican House was divided against itself: President Ronald Reagan, his Crazies, and much of the muscular New Right on one side—the GOP establishment, moderate Vice President George H.W. Bush, and Minority Leader Bob Michel on the other. The Crazies—Reps. Newt Gingrich and Robert Smith Walker—sent a scathing letter to their GOP colleagues, calling for…

The ongoing controversy about the federal government's role in managing land may soon come to a head. Earlier this month, in accord with a presidential executive order issued in April, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke delivered recommendations to the president on national monument lands that are being reviewed by his department. Details about the report—whether lands…

Kudos to the Justice Department for ending Operation Choke Point. Operation Choke Point was an effort by Obama administration officials to destroy lawful businesses that they personally disliked by intimidating finance companies into denying them service. Last week, Stephen E. Boyd, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Office of Legislative Affairs, wrote a letter to…

The debate over whether or not to tear down Confederate statues deemed offensive has quickly moved on to other historical figures. Christopher Columbus, the Italian sailor who opened up the New World to migration from the Old, is now in the crosshairs of protesters and vandals. What is likely the oldest monument to Columbus in…

In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, The Heritage Foundation’s Luke Coffey explains why President Donald Trump made the right call on Afghanistan. “The goal in Afghanistan is to get that country to a point where its able to manage its internal security by itself without tens of thousands of Western troops on the…